Tips
Having a fast metabolism is something that everyone would like to have.
What is a fast metabolism? A fast metabolism means that you are burning calories efficiently all day long, whether you intend to or not.
- How To Make You Metabolism Faster:
-Almonds
-Grapefruit
-Curry
-Broccoli
-Oatmeal
-Yogurt
-Apples
-Green Tea
-Soy - Milk
-Coffe
-Beans
-Cinnamon
-Turkey
-Spinach
-Avocados
-Water.
- Drink plenty of water. Your brain and body work better when hydrated. Experts say to drink at least 8 250ml glasses a day. Try drinking a glass an hour or so. Soon you’ll be doing it without realising.
- Drink ice cold water - apparently you burn more calories, in all honesty I just prefer it, if it does burn more calories, awesome!
- Have an upper and lower calorie limit for yourself. Mines 1000-1500. It helps keep your body guessing.
- Only weigh yourself once a week. Its best to do so, first thing when you wake up, go to the toilet then weigh yourself. I weigh in on monday mornings.
- Remember your weight can fluctuate up to 5lbs a day, depending on water weight, whether you’ve had a bowel movement in the last 12/24 hours, menstrual cycle, sodium consumed the previous day etc. Also why its best to only weigh yourself once a week, it can change too much in a day.
- Its best to eat 6 small meals a day, it keeps your metabolism going.
- Eat your heaviest meal at lunch.
- Plan your portions, work out calories before you eat.
- If you have a blackberry or iphone, download an app for calorie counting, they can be really useful. Personally I use the calorie counter by fatsecret on my blackberry, and it is amazing & free! You can track your net calories, see your progress, track exercise, pretty much anything you want!
- Eat healthy snacks, such as fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts. I myself have about 9 little pots in the fridge, which each have around 100 calorie snacks, such as nuts, seeds, sometimes even chocolate!
- Try not to restrict or cut certain foods out of your diet, your body needs a well balanced diet to function properly.
- Eating too little can actually hinder your weight loss. Your body goes into starvation mode and panicks, therefore you stop losing weight.
- To start with, you’ll probably lose weight really quickly for the first month or so, then it evens out. After a while you may plateau. To break this plateau, try changing exercises, calorie intakes, see what works for you.
- Healthy weight loss is 2lbs a week.
- Always weigh yourself on the same surface. Sounds silly, but if you weigh yourself on a carpeted area instead of a hard surface like wood or tile, it may be an inaccurate reading. For example, the same day, i weighed myself in my room, which has carpet, then 2 mins later, in the bathroom which is tiled. It gave me 4lbs difference! So I always weigh myself on a hard surface.
- If you can, invest in a good scale. You want to be able to rely on it giving an accurate reading.
- If you’re hungry when you think you shouldn’t be (i.e between snacks/meals), distract yourself with something for around 10ish minutes. Thats around enough time for you to figure out if you’re really hungry. If you still are, have something small and low-calorie, like fruit.
- Eat your meals slowly. It takes around 20 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that you’re full.
- Its best to do heavy exercise (60mins or more) every 3 days. Give your body a rest day in between. Your body needs to repair itself, you may end up injuring yourself. Alternatively you can exercise for around 30mins everyday. It works out the same and you should be okay.
- Do exercises that you enjoy. If you don’t enjoy your workout, you aren’t going to want to keep doing it, therefore give up quicker.
- Eat proteins and carbs. Protein helps repair muscles and other tissues, leading to muscle gain. But if you don’t eat carbs too, your body will use the protein as energy instead and won’t use it to repair tissues.
